Equality Green: News, Views and Reviews for the LGBT Community

Welcome to Equality Green!

As far as I know,  this is one of the first blogs on Green for the LGBT community. As a Green expert, I realized that LGBT people are just as vulnerable to global warming and climate change as everyone else, but not really represented in the movement to Green the planet and the economy. When I am out and about in the sustainability community, I see a lot of LGBT folks at events, jobs conferences and in organizations, but no place is made for us to meet, support each other and get organized. Equality Green is your new online Green LGBT destination, and I will strive to provide smart, fun LGBT-focused posts about what’s happening in the emerging Green sector.

Why bother? Equality is why. Unity in the face of the enormous, unprecedented challenge of global warming. In my early 20’s, I lived in San Francisco and was a participant in Harvey Milk’s emerging Castro community.  Harvey insisted, and demonstrated, that coalition building is on the critical path to our full equality.  We need to link to the Green revolution that is taking root, and play leadership roles as well.

 As we fight for our basic equality and equal protection, we also need protection from the severity of climate change. We must add to our incomes these days, and access the funding and subsidies that are available for solar and energy efficiency retrofits. This way we can save thousands on our energy bills, and also reduce our carbon footprint, in order to save the planet.  

Together, we can grow an online Green community, and represent in the new LGBT Green society and economy that is being born! Thanks for recommending Equality Green to your friends on Facebook and Twitter, too! More to do as I build out this site and proliferate it. Join us!

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